Synonyms of the word

opposite

• adj. Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
• adj. (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
• adj. Facing in the other direction.
• adj. Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
• adj. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
• n. Something opposite or contrary to another.
• n. An opponent.
• n. An antonym.
• n. (mathematics) An additive inverse.
• adv. In an opposite position.
• prep. Facing, or across from.
• prep. In a complementary role to.
• prep. (television) On another channel at the same time.

antonym

• n. (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.

contestant

• n. A participant in a contest.

contrary

• adj. Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
• adj. Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent.
• adj. Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.
• adv. Contrarily.
• n. The opposite.
• n. One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true.
• v. (obsolete) To oppose; to frustrate.
• v. (obsolete) To impugn.
• v. (obsolete) To contradict (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To do the opposite of (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to.
• v. (obsolete) To argue; to debate; to uphold an opposite opinion.
• v. (obsolete) To be self-contradictory; to become reversed.

diametric

• adj. directly opposite.
• adj. of or relating to a diameter; diametral.

diametrical

• adj. Of or pertaining to a diagonal or diameter.
• adj. Completely opposed.

different

• adj. Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
• adj. Various, assorted, diverse.
• adj. Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
• adj. Unlike most others; unusual.
• n. (mathematics) The different ideal.

face-to-face

• n. A meeting, especially a meeting between two people conducted in person as opposed to a meeting conducted…
• adj. In one another's presence.
• adv. While physically present.

inverse

• adj. Opposite in effect, nature or order.
• adj. Reverse, opposite in order.
• adj. (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
• adj. (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when…
• adj. (geometry) That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point…
• adj. (category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse…
• n. An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside…
• n. The result of an inversion, particularly.
• n. (mathematics) A second element which negates a first; in a binary operation, the element for which the…
• n. (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
• n. (card games) The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that…
• n. (linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number…
• v. (surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.

opponent

• n. An individual or group who is a rival of another.
• n. One who attempts to stop the progression of.
• n. One who objects to.
• n. In team sports, a player of an opposite team.
• adj. Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

oppositeness

• n. The state or condition of being opposite.

opposition

• n. The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
• n. An opposite or contrasting position.
• n. (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees…
• n. (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
• n. (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent…
• n. (chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance…

other

• adj. See other (determiner) below.
• adj. second.
• adj. Alien.
• adj. Different.
• adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
• n. An other one, more often rendered as another.
• n. The other one; the second of two.
• adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
• adv. (obsolete) otherwise.
• v. (transitive) To make into an other.
• v. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
• v. (transitive) (ethnicity or race) To label as "other".
• conj. (obsolete) Or.

paired

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pair.

polar

• adj. Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole).
• adj. (space sciences) Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
• adj. (chemistry) Having a dipole; ionic.
• adj. (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius…
• adj. (linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes and no.

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

word

• n. The smallest unit of language which has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest…
• n. Something which is like such a unit of language.
• n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action.
• n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something which has been said; a comment, utterance; speech.
• n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting…
• n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto.
• n. News; tidings (used without an article).
• n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
• n. A promise; an oath or guarantee.
• n. A brief discussion or conversation.
• n. (in the plural) See words.
• n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
• n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
• v. (transitive) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.
• v. (transitive) To ply or overpower with words.
• v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
• interj. (slang, African American Vernacular) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement…
• interj. (slang, emphatic, stereotypically, African American Vernacular) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement…
• v. Alternative form of worth (to become).